The Hospitality Professional Managers Forum (HPMF) officially launched its Sri Lankan chapter on 4th July, 2018 at Shangri-La Hotel Colombo during the International Housekeepers Summit 2018. This will be the second international chapter that the association has launched, following the introduction of its Middle Eastern chapter in Dubai in February 2018.
Several industry professionals from Asia attended the launch event, which mostly included housekeepers, buyers, general managers and hotel owners. The Sri Lanka chapter’s council members will be announced soon. Some of the notable attendees from India were Shiv Singh Rajpurohit of Jodhpur, Jwala Srinivas of Hyderabad and HPMF’s founder Nitin Nagrale, founder and its chairman, Mohan Deshpande.
The association was established over seven years ago in Mumbai and currently has 12 chapters in India with 2000 members across India and Middle East. It now intends to establish its presence in Nepal and Bangladesh. The association will soon organise its annual convention at Varanasi from 25th to 27th October, 2018.
